Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was one of the last surviving members of the Surrealist movement, and one of the most singular figures in English modernism. A writer, painter and sculptor, who moved from an English country house to Mexico City, via Paris and New York, Carrington’s life spanned incredible political changes and numerous cultural movements, yet her interests and style remained consistent across the different fields in which she worked.

This week, Juliet talks to Mexican novelist and critic Chloe Aridjis about her personal and creative relationship with Carrington, as well as Carrington’s life and work, and its influence on Josh Appignanesi’s new film Female Human Animal, in which Chloe and Juliet both appear.

WORKS REFERENCED

WORKS BY LEONORA CARRINGTON

The Debutante and Other Stories (2017) - https://www.silverpress.org/the-debutante-and-other-stories/

Down Below (1943) - https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-strange-irreverent-worlds-of-down-below-and-the-complete-stories-of-leonora-carrington/

The Hearing Trumpet (1974) - https://vulpeslibris.wordpress.com/2016/07/20/surreal-old-people-leonora-carringtons-the-hearing-trumpet/

Tate Liverpool exhibition (2015)

CHLOE ARIDJIS, Book of Clouds (2009), Asunder (2013) and Sea Monsters (2019) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloe_Aridjis

Homero Aridjis - https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?owner_id=13

André Breton

Claude Cahun

Robert Capa - https://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/the-mexican-suitcase-a-fascinating-chapter-in-the-history-of-photography/

LEWIS CARROLL, Jabberwocky (1871)

Ithell Colquhoun - http://www.ithellcolquhoun.co.uk/

Salvador Dalí

HUGH SYKES DAVIES, Petron (1935) - http://jacketmagazine.com/20/hsd-watson.html

Toni Del Renzio - https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/jan/18/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries

Eisenstein in Guanajuato (dir. Peter Greenaway, 2015)

Max Ernst, ‘Two Children Menaced by Nightingale’

Female Human Animal (dir. Josh Appignanesi, 2018) - http://film.britishcouncil.org/female-human-animal

DAVID GASCOYNE, Man’s Life is This Meat (1936) - http://www.bookride.com/2012/08/mans-life-is-this-meat.html

DAVID GASCOYNE, A Short Survey of Surrealism (1935) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/dec/02/poetry

Ernő Goldfinger

Peggy Guggenheim

ALDOUS HUXLEY, Eyeless in Gaza (1936)

International Surrealist Exhibition (Burlington Galleries, 1936)

Edward James - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04y9gsw

Humphrey Jennings & Charles Madge - http://jacketmagazine.com/20/meng-jen-madg.html

The Kabala

Frida Kahlo

Edward Lear

E.L.T. Mesens - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/e-l-t-mesens-1624

Violette Nozières - http://unrealisedfutures.tumblr.com/post/162742317295/e-l-t-mesens-violette-nozieres

Octavio Paz

Benjamin Péret - https://www.atlaspress.co.uk/index.cgi?action=view_backlist&number=2

Beatrix Potter

Gisèle Prassinos - https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/43480/gis%C3%A8le-prassinos-reading-her-poems-surrealists

¡Que Viva México! (dir. Sergei Eisenstein, 1932)

HERBERT READ, Surrealism (1936)

Diego Rivera

Mary Shelley

Dylan Thomas

Marina Warner - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/06/leonora-carrington-from-high-society-to-surrealism-in-praise-of-100-years-on

Imre Weisz